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What is the default root password in Ubuntu Linux?

By: Praveen, Last Updated: May 21, 2017

By defaultUbuntu Linuxdistributions comes without a root password(i.e The root account is inactive).While Linux distributions like PC Linux Os comes with active root user account.Setting a root password will give full administrative privilege to the user. The root user is also know as Super user.Now lets see how to login as root user and set default root password. 🙂